Re: [resend][PATCH 2/2] mm, mem-hotplug: update pcp->stat_thresholdwhen memory hotplug occur

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 22:22:44 EST


On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:07:33 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > > @@ -5013,6 +5014,8 @@ int __meminit init_per_zone_wmark_min(void)
> > > > min_free_kbytes = 128;
> > > > if (min_free_kbytes > 65536)
> > > > min_free_kbytes = 65536;
> > > > +
> > > > + refresh_zone_stat_thresholds();
> > > > setup_per_zone_wmarks();
> > > > setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve();
> > > > setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio();
> > >
> > > setup_per_zone_wmarks() could change the min and low watermarks for a zone
> > > when refresh_zone_stat_thresholds() would have used the old value.
> >
> > Indeed.
> >
> > I could make the obvious fix, but then what I'd have wouldn't be
> > sufficiently tested.
>
> Can we review this?

It's unclear what you mean?

The patches otherwise look OK to me, but it's pretty easy to make
mistakes in this area.

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